Wells DunbarNPR Digital Services RSS Generator 0.94The Write Up: T he Story Behind the Storytellers What does it mean to be a writer? What is the creative process? How do you publish your work? What inspires you to write? When did you become a writer? Each month screenwriter, novelist and performer Owen Egerton sits down with all sorts of writers—from playwrights to poets—to talk about their lives and careers. “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” — Ernest Hemingway “The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.” — Gustave Flaubert “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. ”― Jack KerouacNPR Digital Services RSS Generator 0.94The Write Up with Owen EgertonFri, 09 Dec 2016 18:31:37 +0000The Write Up with Owen Egertonhttp://kut.org
Rebecca McInroy In this episode of The Write Up , we talk with prizewinning journalist and nonfiction writer Juliana Barbassa about her book Dancing with the Devil in the City of God: Rio de Janeiro on the Brink depicting the beauty, crime, pressures, and violent paradoxes shaping Brazil’s most vibrant city. Juliana Barbassa has lived and written all over the world. Born in Brazil, she has lived in Iraq, Spain, Malta, Libya, France, and the United States. As a journalist, her ability to dive in and find the human face in the most desperate of stories won her acclaim including the Katie Journalism Award, the emerging journalist of the year by the U.S.-based National Association of Hispanic Journalists, and the John L. Dougherty award by the Associated Press Managing Editors. Juliana Barbassa: Dancing With The Devil In The City of Godhttp://kut.org/post/juliana-barbassa-dancing-devil-city-god
15046 as http://kut.orgTue, 24 May 2016 16:36:44 +0000 Juliana Barbassa: Dancing With The Devil In The City of GodOwen Egerton It’s always a treat to talk with Amelia Gray . Her imagination, wit, and insight ensure any conversation will shine. And, like her stories, humor and darkness weave through all her words. Gray came to the KUT studios while visiting Austin from her home in Los Angeles. We chatted craft, risk, and the joys of writing. We talk about her writing routine and how she mines her own fears and desire to inspire her fiction. We also trace her career and how she sees herself in the current literary scene.Amelia Gray On Nightmares, Religion, and Marcus Aureliushttp://kut.org/post/amelia-gray-nightmares-religion-and-marcus-aurelius
14638 as http://kut.orgTue, 22 Mar 2016 15:35:08 +0000Amelia Gray On Nightmares, Religion, and Marcus AureliusRebecca McInroy On this edition of The Write Up we chat with novelist, playwright, and professor Kirk Lynn about the craft of writing, the adventure of theater, and the deep desire to abandon society and escape into the wild. We also discuss his debut novel Rules for Werewolves. Lynn began writing prose in college, but found the companionship of his desk and typewriter not so satisfying. So he took a chance on theatre. It was on the stage that he found his passion for the human voice. Along with six friends, Lynn founded Austin’s Rude Mechanicals , now called the Rude Mechs. For nearly twenty years this growing company has produced some of the more daring and critically acclaimed plays to come out of Texas, a number of them penned by Lynn, including Stop Hitting Yourself and Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20 th Century .Writer Kirk Lynn On Escaping, Attending, and Destroying Everythinghttp://kut.org/post/writer-kirk-lynn-escaping-attending-and-destroying-everything
14265 as http://kut.orgMon, 25 Jan 2016 19:50:37 +0000Writer Kirk Lynn On Escaping, Attending, and Destroying EverythingRebecca McInroy Author and journalist Ada Calhoun's newest book St. Marks is Dead: The Many Lives of America’s Hippest Street chronicles the history of a few select city blocks of Manhattan and the personalities that have made it legend.Writer Ada Calhoun Reflects on Growing Up on New York's 'Hippest Street'http://kut.org/post/writer-ada-calhoun-reflects-growing-new-yorks-hippest-street
13931 as http://kut.orgMon, 23 Nov 2015 21:19:26 +0000Writer Ada Calhoun Reflects on Growing Up on New York's 'Hippest Street'Owen Egerton Debra Monroe is an award-winning author of six books and acclaimed university professor. But she was, in her own words, “raised to be a farmer’s wife, a shopkeeper’s wife, a telephone man’s wife.”On Becoming Wholehttp://kut.org/post/becoming-whole
13680 as http://kut.orgMon, 19 Oct 2015 14:28:43 +0000On Becoming WholeRebecca McInroy Sarah Hepola’s new memoir, Blackout: Remembering Things I Drank to Forget , chronicles her addiction to alcohol with brutal honesty and brilliant humor. The book is gaining critical acclaim from reviewers in The New York Times , The Washington Post , LA Times , and Kirkus Reviews . Entertainment Weekly observed, “It’s hard to think of another memoir that burrows inside an addict’s brain like this one does.” Blackout was named one of Amazon.com’s Best Books of June 2015, People Magazine’s Best Books of the Summer, and won a spot on the New York Times Best Sellers List. Hepola recently joined us on The Write Up to discuss the memoir. We also chat about her work as an editor at Salon and as a freelance writer, and the complicated ways alcohol affected her writing and life.Sarah Hepola on 'Blackout: Remembering Things I Drank To Forget'http://kut.org/post/sarah-hepola-blackout-remembering-things-i-drank-forget
13162 as http://kut.orgThu, 30 Jul 2015 18:26:17 +0000Sarah Hepola on 'Blackout: Remembering Things I Drank To Forget'Owen Egerton It’s a true pleasure to get to sit down with Holt on The Write Up and discuss her craft and career and how she balances daily life, deadlines and being a mother of three. Join us as we chat about the attraction of writing for a younger audience, her love for underdogs and preteen ne’er-do-wells, and the allure of poetry. Her novel Mike Stellar: Nerves of Steel won praise from readers all over the nation. Her poetry shines in her collection Haiku Mama: Because 17 Syllables is All You Have Time to Read , written under the name Kari Anne Roy, is a collection of haikus hilariously bemoaning the struggles and joys of parenting.K.A. Holt on Zombies, Haiku and Combating Helicopter Parentinghttp://kut.org/post/ka-holt-zombies-haiku-and-combating-helicopter-parenting
12938 as http://kut.orgWed, 17 Jun 2015 21:31:56 +0000K.A. Holt on Zombies, Haiku and Combating Helicopter ParentingRebecca McInroy Questions that lead to no answers. Wounds that never quite heal. The unhinged time of tragedy and grief. The soft, relentless whispering of the abused, the murdered, the lost. This is the world of Scott Blackwood. Scott Blackwood is one of the most lyrical of modern American writers. His prose rings with poetry. His work explores community, grief, and the secrets that run through our lives. In this edition of The Write Up , Blackwood talks about his new novel See How Small and explains why he is drawn to this story and the harrowing task of researching it. With a careful balance of compassion and curiosity, Blackwood reached out to many of the people connected to the actual murders including family members and first responders. Blackwood’s goal in this novel, and in all his work, is to recover lost voices.Author Scott Blackwood on Appreciating The Beauty Between Life and Deathhttp://kut.org/post/author-scott-blackwood-appreciating-beauty-between-life-and-death
12614 as http://kut.orgTue, 28 Apr 2015 16:55:18 +0000Author Scott Blackwood on Appreciating The Beauty Between Life and DeathRebecca McInroy Amanda Eyre Ward is not afraid. In researching her first novel Sleep Toward Heaven , Amanda sat down with convicted murderers waiting on death row to explore their regrets and hopes. While writing her novel Forgive Me , Amanda traveled to South Africa to experience the ethnic tensions of Johannesburg first-hand In this episode of The Write Up, we discuss her latest novel The Same Sky , her penchant for telling stories of the voiceless and powerless, the importance of looking past political divides to tell the stories of real people and how exploring the lives of others has impacted her own own.Amanda Eyre Ward on Gratitude, Compassion and 'The Same Sky'http://kut.org/post/amanda-eyre-ward-gratitude-compassion-and-same-sky
12244 as http://kut.orgSat, 07 Mar 2015 16:03:34 +0000Amanda Eyre Ward on Gratitude, Compassion and 'The Same Sky'Owen Egerton Doug Dorst is a wonder at words and worlds. He’s a master of bringing the known and unknown, the mundane and the strange, into immediate proximity to one another is such a way that the line begins to fade. Whether it’s insecure police officers encountering restless ghosts romping through northern California in his debut novel Alive in Necropolis , or the dark inner lives of surf gurus and cake sculptors in his short story collection The Surf Guru , or the wild labyrinth voices, artifacts, and nightmarish locales of S . On this edition of The Write Up , we speak with Dorst about his craft, his former life as a lawyer, his three victories on the game show Jeopardy and working with J.J. Abrams.Doug Dorst on the 'Internal Editor' and Losing Yourself in a Narrativehttp://kut.org/post/doug-dorst-internal-editor-and-losing-yourself-narrative
11928 as http://kut.orgThu, 15 Jan 2015 17:21:56 +0000Doug Dorst on the 'Internal Editor' and Losing Yourself in a NarrativeRebecca McInroy Talking with Carrie Fountain is like grabbing a coffee with a dear friend you who leaves you feeling thrilled and more awake to the world around you. The conversation with the award-winning poet in this episode of The Write Up spins to wonderfully surprising places, exploring parenting, mysticism, craft and her extraordinary new poetry collection Instant Winner . But, whether it’s writing her next poem or facing a new parenting challenge, Fountain says she consistently strives to “always remain a beginner.”Why Carrie Fountain Always Remains a Beginnerhttp://kut.org/post/why-carrie-fountain-always-remains-beginner
11699 as http://kut.orgTue, 25 Nov 2014 19:32:03 +0000Why Carrie Fountain Always Remains a BeginnerOwen Egerton This month’s guest on "The Write Up" is novelist and poet Louisa Hall . Louisa Hall’s life reads like a novel all its own – after graduating Harvard, she became a professional squash player, ranked second overall in the US. But near the height of her career, Hall abandoned the sport and headed to Texas to study literature at the University of Texas, write poetry, and begin working on her first novel.How Novelist Louisa Hall Got From the Squash Court to 'The Carriage House'http://kut.org/post/how-novelist-louisa-hall-got-squash-court-carriage-house
11456 as http://kut.orgMon, 20 Oct 2014 20:30:48 +0000How Novelist Louisa Hall Got From the Squash Court to 'The Carriage House'Rebecca McInroy Manuel Gonzales loves zombies. Especially self-loathing zombies with unrequited office crushes and enough makeup to hide their undead identity. His story collection, The Miniature Wife and Other Stories (Riverhead), is populated with zombies, werewolves, unicorns and other monsters and misfits. But Gonzales re-imagines these familiar figures in hilarious and heartbreaking ways. With deft humor and compassion, Gonzales makes what could be over-tread ground fresh and newly strange. As funny as the stories often are, they also bubble with moments of dread and outright terror. But the terror comes from unexpected sources. Gonzales’ werewolf in the story “ Wolf” is not nearly as horrifying as the relative trying to kill it. The mad scientist in the title story isn’t as haunting as the murderous wife he “unintentionally" shrunk to the height of a coffee cup, and the unicorn in “One-Horned & Wild-Eyed” is more eerie than beautiful and dangerously seductive. Gonzales carries hisWriting To Stay Sane http://kut.org/post/writing-stay-sane
11156 as http://kut.orgFri, 05 Sep 2014 17:04:31 +0000Writing To Stay Sane Rebecca McInroy In this edition of "The Write Up," host Owen Egerton talks with the creator, writer and director of The Intergalactic Nemesis , Jason Neulander . Plus, Dr. Brett Sherman reviews The Foundations of Arithmetic by Gottlob Frege. Jason Neulander moved to Austin in the early 1990s with nothing but a dream and motorbike. He founded The Salvage Vanguard Theater upon his arrival and went on to create theatrical experiences, not only on the stage but throughout the city.Who Has Two Thumbs and Dreams of Pulp-Noir Domination?http://kut.org/post/who-has-two-thumbs-and-dreams-pulp-noir-domination
10984 as http://kut.orgFri, 08 Aug 2014 18:56:13 +0000Who Has Two Thumbs and Dreams of Pulp-Noir Domination?